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June 29, 2019 by Deborah W. Trotter
In all of my many visits to Oregon as a child and as an adult, I had never visited John …
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Category: National Monuments, National Parks
| Tags: gravel road, Highway 26, intense colors, John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, Mitchell, Oregon, Painted Hills, plentiful wildflowers, Redmond, short trails, Sisters, viewpoints
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April 23, 2019 by Deborah W. Trotter
During the first week of April we returned to another of our favorite places in California, the Carrizo Plain National …
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Category: National Monuments, National Parks
| Tags: Carrizo Plain, Carrizo Plain National Monument, flower fields, hillsides, magical carpets, National Park Week, nature's displays, super blooms, wildflowers
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December 31, 2018 by Deborah W. Trotter
If you’ve stopped by here before,then I hope you have enjoyed visiting or revisiting National Parks through my photographs and …
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Category: National Monuments, National Parks
| Tags: Alaska, Bandelier National Monument, California, Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, Happy New Year, John Muir, Kings Canyon National Park, Lassen Volcanic National Park, New Mexico, Sequoia-Kings Canyon National Park, Wrangell St. Elias National Park and Preserve, Yosemite National Park
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April 21, 2018 by Deborah W. Trotter
It is fitting that this year National Park Week (April 21 – April 29) kicks off on the 180th anniversary …
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Category: National Monuments, National Parks
| Tags: Bumpass Hell Trail, CA, Carrizo Plain National Monument, Crater Lake National Park, Death Valley National Park, Dogwood blooms, Fireweed, Glacier National Park, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Grand Teton National Park, Ground squirrel, High Peaks Trail, Lassen Peak, Lassen Volcanic National Park, Little Baldy, Mist Trail, MT, OR, Pinnacles National Park, Sequoia-Kings Canyon National Park, Vernal Fall, WY, Yosemite National Park, Yosemite Valley
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February 28, 2018 by Deborah W. Trotter
It is a disappointment when a long-planned national park visit coincides with closure of a favorite trail or limitation of …
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Category: National Monuments, National Parks
| Tags: "Alerts" tab, Alcove House, Ancestral Pueblo people, Bandelier, Bandelier National Monument, Cave Kiva, cave rooms, cliff dwellings, deer, fear of heights, Frijoles Canyon, Frijoles Creek, kiva, ladders, Long House, loop trail, National Park Service, New Mexico, peaceful walk, petroglyphs, roof beams, ruins, stone dwellings, trail, Tyuonyi, Visitor Center, volcanic tuff
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October 26, 2017 by Deborah W. Trotter
Every return visit to a National Park or Monument is a new experience. Although last spring when we went to …
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Category: National Monuments, National Parks
| Tags: Carrizo Plain, color and joy, exploring, flowers, new experience, record rainfall, return visit, rutted dirt roads, spring, super bloom, surrounding hills
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July 17, 2016 by Deborah W. Trotter
All the talk this spring was of the “super bloom” in Death Valley National Park. After several years of drought …
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Category: National Monuments, National Parks
| Tags: California, Carrizo Plain National Monument, Death Valley National Park, drought, late March, Los Angeles, nature, outdoors, San Luis Obispo County, super bloom, wildflowers
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February 24, 2016 by Deborah W. Trotter
Although I have spent quite a bit of time in and around Santa Fe, New Mexico, until earlier this month …
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Category: National Monuments, National Parks
| Tags: 360 degree views, body contortions, Canyon Trail, Cave Loop Trail, climbing, English majors, geologist's paradise, hike, Kasha-Katuwe, natural landscape, nature, outdoors, Pueblo de Cochiti, scrambling, strenuous, Tent Rocks, trail
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February 17, 2015 by Deborah W. Trotter
We didn’t really know what to expect on a winter visit to the Santa Fe area, but last week with …
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Category: National Monuments, National Parks
| Tags: Alcove House, Bandelier National Monument, cliff dwellings, deer, El Rito de los Frijoles, elevation, Frijoles Canyon, hiking, Little River of Beans, National Park Service, New Mexico, outdoors, Ponderosa pine forest, refried beans, Rio Grande, rock formations, Santa Fe, snow, tall wooden ladders, trail, Tyuonyi, Upper Frijoles Falls, winter
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December 23, 2013 by Deborah W. Trotter
In my final post of 2012 I laid out my goal for this year of hiking at least 60 miles …
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Category: National Monuments, National Parks, National Recreation Areas, National Seashores
| Tags: 60 miles, Coast Trail, Coastal Trail, extreme pleasure, goal, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, High Peaks Loop Trail, hike, Kings Canyon National Park, Lassen Volcanic National Park, Mount Rainier National Park, National Parks, National Parks year, nature, Olympic National Park, Oregon Caves National Monument, outdoors, Pinnacles National Park, Pt. Reyes National Seashore, Sequoia National Park, trails, Upper Yosemite Fall, Yosemite National Park
Going out is really going in. 